Wireless Network adapter gone from laptop

henm2

If you are going to use a live distro to test the wireless card then the following may help. Using a windows tool called Yumi you can put a number of linux distros on one USB stick http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/.

Best live linux distros are Linux Mint , PCLinuxOS, Knoppix.

Fightsback

Imnoexpert wrote: »

There is a wifi icon in the task bar but it is crossed through.

I haven't' tried uninstalling the driver. Nor have I tried Linux yet.

Thanks

You're in luck as there is a whitelist modded BIOS which happens to be the latest BIOS for your friends machine. Use at own risk.

https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-REQUEST-Lenovo-Ideapad-Z575-Whitelist-Removal-54CN18WW